AltWeeklies Wire
Best Thing About Latest Transformers Is That It Should Be the Lastnew
Textbooks be damned. The use of alternative histories has been such a go-to fad in cinematic curriculum recently that no one should be surprised if impressionable movie-going kids really start believing vigilante superheroes helped earn America a victory in Vietnam (Watchmen) or that young mutants saved the country from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (X-Men: First Class).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Cars 2new
After 16 years of smooth sailing down a highway of animation bliss, the check engine light is officially blinking at Disney/Pixar with their newest feature film Cars 2.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
J.J. Abrams Aims High With Super 8, and Nearly Arrivesnew
As much as filmmaker J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) would have liked for his nostalgic sci-fi Super 8 to convey as much enchantment as a Steven Spielberg-directed masterpiece like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it doesn’t quite reach that ambitious goal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
Interview: Actor Michael Peña Talks ‘Lincoln Lawyer’new
Taking about a year and a half off from making movies after his first child was born at the end of 2008, actor and Chicago native Michael Peña, 35, is getting back into the swing of things.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Peña
Critic's Diss: "The Lincoln Lawyer"new
As far as courtroom dramas are concerned, you’d be hard-pressed to find something as generic as 'The Lincoln Lawyer.'
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-25-2011 |
Reviews
Critic's Pick: 'White Material'new
Dressed in a light pink frock and standing on a dusty road in an unnamed African country, Maria Vial, the central character in the French art-house film White Material, appears spellbound by the changes happening in a world she once thought of as her home.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-15-2011 |
Reviews
Hall Pass interviews: Peter Farrelly & J.B. Smoovenew
As one half of the filmmaking duo known as the Farrelly brothers, Peter Farrelly has been churning out slapstick comedies with his brother Bobby since Dumb and Dumber in 1994. Since then, both have introduced audiences to some unusual characters in films such as Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary, and Shallow Hal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-04-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hall Pass, Peter Farrelly
Critic's Pick: Cedar Rapidsnew
In Cedar Rapids, small-town insurance salesman Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) is the kind of hopeless buffoon you wouldn’t mind getting to know. His rite of passage comes when he is sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to represent his company at an insurance convention, a sizeable step for Tim, who has never left his own backyard.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-04-2011 |
Reviews
Interview with Lisa Lampanelli (aka the Queen of Mean)new
Since starting her stand-up comedy career in the early 90s, the answer has always been as harsh as a swift kick in the balls: Lisa Lampanelli.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-04-2011 |
Comedy
Tags: Lisa Lampanelli, Queen of Mean
Swan Divenew
Our beloved Natalie Portman tests our patience. Severely.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
02-02-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ivan Reitman, No Strings Attached
Critic's diss: Yogi Bearnew
Yogi can still refer to himself as “smarter than the average bear” if he’d like, but his movie hardly supports the self-description.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
12-17-2010 |
Reviews
Director Deb Hagan Jumps Head First into 'College'new
If Hagan knew her binge-drinking freshman year at the University of Delaware would actually be used as research for her first feature film 15 years later, she might've stayed around an extra couple of semesters just to make sure she understood the full meaning of the term "riding the porcelain bus."
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Blind Musical Prodigy Juanito Castillo is 19, and He Knows What He Wantsnew
It seems like only yesterday Juanito was a little boy with an accordion in his hands, playing for crowds at Market Square and local church festivals. Hailed as brilliant at an early age, Juanito quickly moved up the ranks to the conjunto elite and captured the attention of many Tejano musicians on the scene.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pregnancy Inspires Thalia's 'Lunada' Beach Fantasiesnew
"In Lunada, I wanted to invoke all my favorite summery songs of all time," Thalia says. "I started to think about the time of my adolescence and the songs I would listen to during the summer. I was pulling together all my favorite songs and writing new songs in the process."
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
San Antonian Climbs Mountains for Decade-long Film Projectnew
For 10 Mountains -- 10 Years, the 10-member climbing team known as "The Regulars" is scaling 11,239 feet to the summit of Mt. Hood, the highest peak in the state of Oregon to raise awareness and find cures for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-02-2008 |
Movies
